Infectious diseases : emergence and re-emergence : a geographical analysis /

Cliff, A. D.

Infectious diseases : emergence and re-emergence : a geographical analysis / A.D. Cliff, M.R. Smallman-Raynor [and others]. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (xxxiv, 763 pages) : illustrations, maps - Oxford geographical and environmental studies . - Oxford geographical and environmental studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-736) and index.

List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Part I: Early Disease Emergence: Pre-1850; Part II: Processes of Disease Emergence: 1850-2006; Part III: The Future for Emergent Disease Control; References; Index.

The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus, hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires' and Lyme diseases, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and West Nile. The outbreaks range in scale from global pandemics that have brought death and misery to millions, through to self-limiting outbreaks of mainly local impact. Some outbreaks haveerupted explosively but have already faded away; some grumble along or continue to devastate as now persistent featu.

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Communicable diseases.
Epidemiology.
Medical geography.
World health.
Global Health
Communicable Diseases, Emerging--epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging--etiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging--prevention & control
Communicable Diseases
Epidemiology
Topography, Medical
Maladies infectieuses.
Épidémiologie.
Géographie médicale.
Santé mondiale.
MEDICAL--Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL--Epidemiology.
Communicable diseases.
Epidemiology.
Medical geography.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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2009 I-509 WA 110 / I43345 2009

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